Key Facts on Food Insecurity and Hunger Among Latino Children

Author:	Brad Johnson
Contact:	Jennifer Ng'andu
Date:	Jun 24, 2008
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Topic:	Health and Family Support
Policies:	Healthy Foods, Healthy Families, Latino Children’s Health

Summary

Latino children experience high rates of food insecurity. In 2006, 26% of Latino children were food insecure, meaning that they lacked nutritionally adequate and safe foods and had a limited or uncertain ability to acquire suitable foods in socially acceptable ways. This fact sheet shows that limited resources for food restrict Latino children’s ability to have a nutritionally adequate diet. As a result, food insecure Latino children face higher odds of developing difficulties in cognition, language, motor skills, behavior, learning, and socio-emotional skills.